Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. Jean Cocteau
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. F. Scott Fitzgerald
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there. Michel de Montaigne
Each instant of life is a step toward death. Pierre Corneille
When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating. Anton Chekhov
Tomorrow is another day toward death. Sylvia Plath